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michael_lifecycle
Contributor I
Contributor I
September 20, 2026
Question

Shopify + Klaviyo: When a flow looks healthy but repeat purchase underperforms, what do you check first?

  • September 20, 2026
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When a flow looks healthy but repeat purchase is underperforming, what do you check first?

I’m trying to understand a specific Shopify + Klaviyo failure mode.

Sometimes the dashboard looks normal, but underneath:

- the expected customer never entered the flow
- eligibility or suppression excluded someone unexpectedly
- an event arrived late
- attributed revenue made the flow look healthier than it really was

For people who have debugged this in real stores:

What was the earliest signal that told you the problem was underneath the reporting rather than the messaging itself?

I’m especially interested in real examples where the dashboard initially looked fine.

2 replies

Bobi N.
Partner - Platinum
Champion & Partner
September 21, 2026

Usually it is customer complaining why they didn’t receive specific email, but what we are talking here are few small examples. If the dashboard looks fine usually it is fine you just need to address those few specific people that may complain and work backwards. Instead looking in the flow itself look at the profiles and see what they did and why they were skipped.. and for many other situations exploring subscriber profiles can teach you a lot about how klaviyo functions and what is happening in your flows

Head Email Marketing Technician at Flowium
michael_lifecycle
Contributor I
Contributor I
September 21, 2026

That's really useful — especially the point that the first signal can come from a customer complaint rather than the dashboard.

In the real stores you've seen, has this ever turned out to be more than a technical cleanup issue — for example, a meaningful number of customers being skipped or excluded without the merchant realizing it?

I'm trying to understand when this becomes a real revenue/retention problem for the merchant rather than just an isolated flow bug.